Author: Floyd Trujillo
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A shameful use of the race card | OPINION
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Floyd Trujillo If you can’t get traction on a cause, just use the race card and reporters will come knocking at your door. News reports that the Suncor Refinery is practicing environmental racism due to its location in a community of color is an example of non-profits and reporters using skin color to raise funds…
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THE PODIUM | Oil & gas vital to Colorado Latinos
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Floyd Trujillo What happens in Washington, D.C., matters to Colorado, especially when it comes to energy. After all, Colorado is the seventh-largest energy producer in the United States, and about 36% of our state’s lands are federally managed. That’s why a potential move by the Biden administration to end oil and gas leases on federal lands…
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OPINION | President, leading Dems see eye to eye on drug bill; Gardner should join ’em
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Floyd Trujillo The out-of-control price of prescription drugs has created a crisis of affordability for too many Colorado patients, seniors and families. A study from the Colorado Health Institute found as many as a half a million Coloradans didn’t fill a prescription due to the price in just a one-year period. To me this is personal and…
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Colorado’s Hispanics have reaped the rewards of oil and gas development
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Floyd Trujillo The out-of-touch Democratic Party bosses who control the House and Senate in Colorado have just handed over an anti-oil and gas Senate Bill 181 to Gov. Polis for his signature. Their arrogance and disregard for the will of the people is a slap in the face to voters who just last year soundly…
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Trujillo: House health care bill leaves veterans behind
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I’m proud to have served my country – but my country, or more precisely its health care system, has been falling short in recent years. The VA facilities have had well-known problems, and 1.75 million veterans who rely on Medicaid for their health care are facing an uncertain future. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) clearly…




